Anonymous #1 9w

They’re fully on the right. I’d say true centrists are like democratic socialists (who are really social democrats)

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Anonymous OP 9w

Fair enough

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Anonymous #2 9w

Okay but neither liberals or democrats are on the left? You’re just saying that liberals and democrats largely overlap, which I agree with, but you aren’t saying anything about about the left or what it means to be on the left?

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Anonymous OP 9w

Well that’s arguable, but I’d always considered ‘liberal’ as center-left, which most PSCI research seems to corroborate. Liberal is most certainly left on the spectrum of political thought in the United States though.

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Anonymous #2 9w

Okay but fuck American exceptionalism, we exist within a larger and international world and we can’t just make up our unique definitions that contradict the rest of the world?

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Anonymous #3 9w

God damn, open up a book. You can’t just invent your own definitions

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Anonymous OP 9w

Both “Tall” and “Left” are subjective cutoffs on a spectrum. We tend to call someone tall if they are a bit taller than the average. We tend to say that someone is on the left if they are a bit to the left of average.

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Anonymous #3 9w

They’re not subjective cut offs. The current hegemonic world system is capitalism. You’re either for conserving the current system (right) or against it and want to move onto the more advanced system that has developed since the right wing system (left). Nothing about that is subjective

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Anonymous #4 9w

What socialists are part of the democratic party lmao

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Anonymous OP 9w

The world isn’t Western Europe, half the world is further to the right than we are.

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Anonymous #3 9w

False. Most of the world is to the left of us. Western Europe is the right

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Anonymous OP 9w

India, indonesia, and pakistan are clearly to the right of us. Thats already more than 2 billion people in just 3 countries.

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Anonymous OP 9w

Thats not a standard definition. It’s just the one you’ve adopted.

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Anonymous #3 9w

That’s the definition the whole world, except for American mainstream media, has adopted wdym 😭

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Anonymous OP 9w

Citation needed

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Anonymous OP 9w

Mamdami, AOC?

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Anonymous #4 9w

Liberals. Not socialists. And on the right

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Anonymous OP 9w

So what is the DSA to you?

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Anonymous #4 9w

Well in theory it is a big tent organization that supposedly leaves room for actual leftists aka socialists. But in reality, it is a safe haven for social democrats looking to reform capitalism thru electoralism

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Anonymous #5 9w

I “need” you to stfu

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